Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

I’m socially impaired. I get surprised all the time by people saying and doing irrational things. Take gay marriage. Why would some people get so upset that people they didn’t even know wanted to get married?”
“For the same reason men denied women the vote for so long. It threatens their status and their understanding of the world.”
She beamed, delighted that he saw it, too. “That’s right! I had to think and think to figure that out. Though I still don’t see why they’re so scared of changing their minds.”
“Because the world is a dangerous place. If it doesn’t work the way we believe it does, the danger becomes unmanageable.

She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different
when they’re gone.

Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.